Recently, I had a couple users start having the "protected view" status on their network-shared Office 2010 files that were working fine till then. The paths and their subfolders were already in the Trust Center.

They're able to just enable the content and continue about their work, so just a minor nuisance.

The last MS updates I noticed were two weeks ago, but reportedly they've been ok even some time after that.

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In the Trust Center settings, you do have the box ticked to Allow documents on a network to be trusted under the Trusted Documents section?

Under File block settings there is also an optoin to Open selected file types in Protected view which you can set as well.

Are there any Macros on these documents? If so you may also need to select under Macro Settings -> Developer Macro settings tick the box for Trust access to the VBA project object model. This is the one that is generally needed if you have done any templates that "do stuff"

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I've seen it fixed on a few machines by entering the full UNC, as RJKY noted. So, instead of I:\share, entered \\servername.domain.local\share. However, this didn't work for at least one machine. Wasn't on my high-priority list. Will revisit soon again.

Thanks for the update, and the welcome. We are using the full UNC currently, and have checked everything RJKY mentioned. Not a huge issue, but a curious one that has popped up out of nowehere and with no updates installed recently - just as yours did.